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From: "Louise Vanover Vore" <>
Subject: [VADICKEN] Beverly - Freeman
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:32:06 -0500

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to sort the Beverlys and the Freemans any help would be greatly appreciated.


ALAMANCE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES
342 S. Spring Street,
Burlington. North Carolina 27215
Phone (910) 229-3588 Fax (910) 229-3592

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the Beverly family in St. Asaph's
District of Orange County, NC during the colonial period. You are correct
that this district is in present day Alamance County, NC. I have made
some copies from early Orange County, NC lower court records that indicate
Elijah Beverly was the son of John Beverly of Orange County who died
sometime before February of 1765. He had brothers named Isaac, John, and
Jesse, and a sister named Hannah. They were all bound out to local families
shortly after the death of John Beverly.

Early Orange County land records indicate that John Beverly had at least 200
acres of land prior to his death, and there is an inventory of the household
articles included in his estate.

ORANGE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA
Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas & Quaker Sessions,
Orange
County, NC.
September 1752 - Aug 1766 compiled by Ruth Shields
from the Alamance County Public Libraries, Burlington, NC.

Court of February 1765

300
" Ordered that Isaac Beverley , an Orphain child of John Beverley , aged
about 11 years,
be bound to Joshua Hadley until he arrive to the age of 21, who is to
receive the sum of b 12 above his freedom dues."

302
Harmon Husband returned an Inventory of the Estate of John Beverley, dec’d.

Three orphan children of John Beverley are bound out -
John Beverley bound to Harmon Husband till 21 years old.
Jesse Beverley bound to William Moffitt "weaver" till 21.
Hannah Beverly bound to John Fruit till she is 18 years old.

405
Elijah Beverley (aged 3 years) son of John Beverley, dec’d bound to Henry
Doyle .... " to learn the trade and occupation of a weaver."

Hannah Beverly one of the Children was Born Oct 17th 1750 and wants to stay
with John Fruit and his wife until she is 16 Years old and they agree to
find her Sufficient Meat drink and Apparel & Teach her to sew ,

Isaac Was Born March 30 th 1753 Joshua Hadley agrees to take him & Learn him to Read & Write & give him 12 or £15.

John Was Born Feby. 12th 1755 Harmon Husband wiIl agree
to take him & give him 2 Years Schooling and further Leasing at home at
times & if of Capacity Practice him to Surveying & give £12 Proc when he is
of age or 21 Years old .

Jesse was Born October 27th 1757 William mofit will take him & Learn him to Read & Write & Arithmetick as far as the Rule of three & Give him when of Age £12 Proc.

Elisha was Born May 15 1762 Henry
Deall will take him & Learn him to Read

ORANGE COUNTY MARRIAGES, 1779 - 1868

Bevelley , Elijah & Mary Freeman, 3 May 1787 : Joel Ramsey, bm.



The following information from Martha Short :

Below is a Beverly reference that I found in "The Lost Children of Wythe
County, Virginia 1790-1878 - Poor School Children, Orphans, and
Apprentices from County Records" compiled by Mary B. Kegley, 1995.

September 12, 1805, overseers of the poor to bind out John, Judith,
Hannah, Robert, Samuel, Abigail, and Elijah Beverly, children of Elijah
Beverly, who appear to be in a "suffering condition." (Wythe County
Court Order Book Records)

Abigail Beverly married Richard Baker Born July 25, 1797 Washington Co., Tennessee

Died August 25, 1871 Married 1819 Abagail Beverly Born 1801 Wythe Co., Virginia

Richard Baker and Abigail Beverly were my gggggrandparents. !!!!!

ORANGE COUNTY MARRIAGES, 1779 - 1868

Bevelley , Elijah & Mary Freeman, 3 May 1787 : Joel Ramsey, bm.

Was Abigail Freeman and Mary Freeman sisters?

Abigail Freeman wife of Joel Ramsey,

Mary Freeman wife of Elijah Beverly, .

Who are the parents of Mary and Abigail Freeman ?

I have found research that states the following , not mine

Freeman , John married Tabitha Hoyter/Hyter/Hiter, thier son

Freeman, William married Sarah Willams as the parents of Mary Polly that married Elijah Beverly.

Was Tabitha Hoyter the daughter of Thomas Hoyter a Chowan Indian ?



HITER FAMILY

by Paul Heinegg

The Hiter family may have come from King George County, Virginia, where James Hiter was mentioned in the 20 November 1767 will of Anne Patterson [WB 1:286].



1. Thomas Hiter/ Hoyter, born perhaps 1700, was one of the "Chief men of the Chowan Indians" who sold thousands of acres in Chowan County by a total of 13 deeds signed between 9 January 1733 and 22 November 1734 [Chowan DB W-1, 215-216, 237-239, 247-253]. Another member of the tribe, James Bennett, petitioned the General Assembly on 14 March 1745 complaining that Thomas Hoyter and John Robin sold land they had no right to sell [Saunders, Colonial Records of North Carolina, IV:802]. Thomas Hiter's descendants, perhaps grandchildren were



LDS Ancestral File states :

James Freeman m. Mary unknown

William Freeman m. Mary Outlaw

John Freeman m. Tabitha (Chowan Indian)

William Freeman m. Sarah Williams

Mary Polly Freeman m. Elijah Beverly.

Louise Vanover Vore

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